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“The Lok Sabha secretariat must provide all necessary assistance to the office of Leader of Opposition to ensure establishment of an office in accordance with ...the RTI Act 2005,” Advani’s secretary Deepak Chopra said in the letter written to Secretary General Lok Sabha on November 3 - about a month after the directive from CIC.
He had also attached a copy of the order passed by the Central Information Commission which declared the office of leader of opposition to be covered under the RTI Act.
The CIC in the order had also instructed the Lok Sabha to provide all the assistance in setting-up the information office for the Leader of Opposition as per the requirement of transparency law.
Replying to an RTI query, Chopra informed activist S C Agrawal that the Lok Sabha Secretariat has been “requested to help us to establish the information office under the RTI Act” but refused to accept the attached RTI fee as the reply was in his “capacity as secretary to Leader of Opposition."
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